Month of September, 2008

Adoption Anxiety: A tortoise comes home
by Joe Bardin, posted September 29, 2008

There is only one legal way to gain custody of a Desert Tortoise in Arizona and that is through adoption. One does not simply walk in and walk out. One must first display one’s fitness for assuming such responsibility. But rather than my own personal makeup, what the Phoenix Herpetological Society seemed most concerned with was my yard. Did it have shade? Was it fenced in? Did it have room to roam? I had to take photos to prove it.

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Joe Bardin is a freelance writer with over a decade of experience, a few awards and numerous opinions herein expressed.

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